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It OPENED a year late. There are still products undelivered even in PDF. Too many stretch goals.

I feel some sympathy for the staff losing their jobs in the current environment in the US, but have no positive memories of Polygon. Several "WTF?!?!?! What the «bleep» is the author on?" reactions. Especially when they branched into non-game reviews...

I never expected to live in one, let alone out in the middle of nowhere between two small towns. I had no trouble finding players until after the lockdown...

I'm 20 miles from 3 FLGS and 1 unfriendly LGS; the 3 FLGS all have play space... but only one is it publicly visible. College town. Board games seem to be seeing a resurgence. had a rare night yesterday - someone else showed up for game night, to play a card game. (Disney one.)

Actually, in AD&D and BX, they could get better by casting continual light everywhere... provided they were paid to do so. Each GP was 1 XP.

It's not. Hell, the small town nearest me is tiny. It lacks public spaces... the library has no separate meeting rooms, and closes at 18:00 hrs. the bar closed years ago. Deb's Cafe closes at 15:00. And is closed mondays. Johnboy's Alsea Merchantile Company ("The Merc") is a general store and...

I tried running it. The Wraith was a suitable foe for a party of 4 starting PCs.

Reichstar was similar - a techbook was planned but never materialized. Plus, it's subject matter has caused it to be seen as a dogwhistle - but it's a game about fighting the Nazis in a few centuries on in an alt history where they won WWII... and have a hyperdrive. Or, at least, that's the...

In terms of physical product, I've been in 2 of about 12 that didn't deliver all that was promised. I've had 2 that the delivered product was physically what was promised but was, design-wise, not to my liking and I couldn't tell until after lock-in. The fails: A Land of Narrow Paths - Maps of...

Kickstarter... similar, but add to that the gambling on whether you get what you paid for. Both in terms of quality and in terms of actual delivery of anything.

AS a for profit stock corporation in the US, they have an obligation solely to shareholders, and it's to maximize the value of the stock and the dividends. Staff time on smaller adventures is not the same return on staff time. Mearls and Crawford noted that it wasn't worth the staff time; it...

As an industry: WotC/HasBro to go into bankruptcy. Get a bunch of the IP out of their hands into others' hands. For the benefit of gamers: changes to reduce copyright duration.

Simply put: Not all the rights are unencumbered. Several were licensed. Some have royalties owed if used. Marvel, Conan, Buck Rogers, Indiana Jones: Licensed Games. Licenses died in the 90's. DragonLance: limited rights, exact details not released. Technically, owned by WotC/HasBro via...

I'm good with any level of weirdness that isn't illogical given its premises. I've enjoyed such diverse settings as Mouse Guard (Almost no magic, but talking animals, and mammals generally intelligent), Legend of the Five Rings (loads of clerical and evil magic, plus some Wuxia, plus deities...

I tend to agree for literature... tho' noting that neither Stephanie Meyers nor Joss Whedon id as LGBTQ, and they're the two biggest modern reimainings... I have. Coming from certain fundamentalist religious groups. Yeah. But let's not forget: many 70's and 80's views of vampirism were as a...

That is an unpreventable risk. People prone to that will work it into anything they play. There is no ruleset or setting book that can prevent hate from hitting play... even when it is counter to the intent of the designers. This is inherent to RPGs. One can encourage toxicity, but cannot...

The thing is, there is a largre universe... and extirpation of life locally is logically no guarantee there isn't other life elsewhere. So if it is a xenophobe rather than zookeeper, the fermi hypothesis will make a lot more preparation sensible... and make going interstellar a priority...

in release, in PDF, I've only seen a very few... D&D's Known World aka Mystara has some floating sky islands (See Top Ballista), but they're not well detailed. (Mostly referenced obliquely in the races.) The City of Serraine, aka The Flying City, is a sky island... Outrider Games/Bergeron &...

6 of the 7 continents. There are poisonous spiders on 6 of the 7 continents. They're surprisingly common around people. And at least 99.99% of all interactions are no harm to the humans. but they can be used to highlight various infestations... Corvids make for excellent city encounters, too...

My dead tree of Savage Worlds is letter size... I should dig it out of storage to put it into my SW materials box. I think it's the 2005 printing, but I haven't it to hand to check. I didn't get the dead tree, but the Pirates of the Spanish Main core was also letter-sized. After 2012, the trade...